The position of the pillar "Loss and Damage" in the UNFCCC ‎negotiations and the impact of domestic (in developed and ‎underdeveloped countries) and international lawsuits on it

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1 Department of Jurisprudence and Law, Imam Khomeini and Islamic Revolution Research Institute, ‎Tehran, Iran

2 Department of International Law, Faculty of Law, Payam Noor University, South Tehran ‎branch,Tehran, Iran

Abstract

As the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations have failed to provide adequate protection to climate victims, vulnerable countries as well as non-governmental organizations are actively exploring legal avenues for relief. Bringing resources to compensate for the "Loss and Damage" and in this way, they consider the lawsuits as the reason for directing the UNFCCC negotiations towards predicting and stipulating the resources of this compensation. Emphasizing the necessity of the international community's support for climate damage caused by climate manipulation, especially the damage caused to vulnerable and less developed countries, this article aims to prove the impact of Loss and Damage claims on the UNFCCC negotiations and in a descriptive and analytical way, to examine the viewpoints of the proponents. and the opponents of this idea and their reasons, as well as the elements and institutions effective in this matter, such as non-governmental organizations and legal networks, finally proves that despite the fact that the mechanism of lawsuits for liability and compensation for climate harms is still in a not very advanced stage, but as a legal way it has a significant capacity to guide the UNFCCC negotiations on the issue of losses and damages, especially the need to "new and additional financial resources" on the two pillars of mitigation and adaptation by the UNFCCC.

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